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Parent/student verdict

Accessible

Accessible for most applicants.

Best for

  • Students drawn to Agriculture or Business, Management, & Marketing (the two biggest majors)
  • Families wanting a small liberal-arts experience

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Institutional snapshot

What kind of college is this?

Carnegie classification
Doctoral/Professional Universities
Undergraduates
2,223
5,000 - 9,999 including graduate students
TuitionThe published full price before any aid. Families who don't qualify for need-based aid at a given college pay this, minus any merit scholarships — whether you qualify depends on the college's price and policies, not on any fixed income line.
$41,164
flat rate (no in/out-of-state split) · 2023–24 federal figure
Admit rateThe share of applicants a college accepts. Useful context, but your student's odds depend on their own grades and scores, not the average.
86.3%
Accepts the majority
Test policyApplicants choose whether to send SAT/ACT scores. At many such colleges, students who submit strong scores are still admitted at higher rates.
Test-optional
2023
10-yr earningsMedian yearly pay of former students ten years after they STARTED here — not ten years after graduating — all majors combined. The broadest single outcome number a college reports.
$56,996
median, after entry

Source: federal IPEDS Admissions 2023 for scores + admit rate; federal College Scorecard (20260606 vintage) for earnings + outcomes. SAT/ACT bands are the 25th–75th percentile of enrolled submitters.

Outcomes & cost

What graduates actually earn, finish, and owe.

Federal College Scorecard data. Earnings are median annual income measured years after entering. Debt is for federal-aid borrowers only (cash-pay students aren't counted).

Earnings, 6 yrs after entry
$49,757
Earnings, 10 yrs after entryMedian yearly pay of former students ten years after they STARTED here — not ten years after graduating — all majors combined. The broadest single outcome number a college reports.
$56,996
Graduate within 6 yrsThe share of students who start here and finish a bachelor's within six years — the standard federal measure, and the one College Scorecard publishes. It is not a four-year rate. Read it as the odds of finishing at all: nationally about a third of students who start never do, and an unfinished degree is the most expensive outcome in this decision.
58%
Median debt (completers)The federal-loan balance of the typical graduating borrower. Families who pay cash aren't counted, so read it as "among those who borrowed."
$25,439

The real cost

What The University of Findlay actually costs

If you qualify for need aidGrant money based on your family's finances (via FAFSA and the college's own forms), not your student's stats.
$27,221/yr
average among aid-receiving families, all incomes — your number depends on your finances
If you don't
$54,580/yr
the full published price

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The payoffTen years of typical graduate pay minus four years of cost — how many dollars ahead a typical graduate runs by year ten. Check both the full-price and with-aid versions to see which applies to you; median pay reflects who a college admits and what they study as much as the college itself., both ways

+$352K ahead at full price +$461K with aid
Full price, no aidThe all-in yearly price — tuition, housing, food, books, fees — before any aid. This is the real "full price," not just the tuition line. (4 yrs)
$218,320
~$54,580/yr all-in
Aid recipients pay (4 yrs)
$108,884
$27,221/yr average
10-yr earnings total
$569,960
$56,996/yr median, 10 yrs out
Years to recoup the cost
3.8 yrs
at full price (1.9 with aid), at the median earnings rate

Source: College Scorecard (average net price among Title IV first-time, full-time undergraduates who received aid) and each college's published cost of attendance. We don't show the federal net-price-by-income brackets: their categories were fixed in 2008 and never adjusted, and none of the averages is your family's own number — the full story. Payoff = (10-yr median earnings × 10) − (4 years of cost), in dollars — how far ahead a typical graduate runs by year ten; medians travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college itself. Full price is the published cost of attendance; earnings are 10 years after enrollment, all majors combined.

What students study here

Most popular majors at The University of Findlay

Top 5 fields of study by bachelor's degrees awarded (most recent IPEDS Completions). Use this to see what The University of Findlay actually graduates — not just what it markets.

1. Agriculture
102 degrees · 33.8%
Farm management, food science, ag-business operations. Wide range based on path.
2. Business, Management, & Marketing
79 degrees · 26.2%
Broad set of corporate roles. Finance + consulting pay top, accounting + HR pay middle, sales spread is wide.
3. Health Professions
67 degrees · 22.2%
Highest-paying group on this list, but most careers require additional training beyond a 4-year degree.
4. Education
38 degrees · 12.6%
Teaching is the largest path. Salary depends heavily on district + state.
5. Biological & Biomedical Sciences
16 degrees · 5.3%
Many bio majors → med school / grad school. Direct-employment bio roles are lower-paid than that pipeline.

What those majors earn here

Median earnings 4 years after entry, by major — The University of Findlay's own graduates, not national averages.

Major (CIP) Credential Cohort 1-yr earnings 4-yr earnings
Environmental Control Technologies/Technicians. Bachelor's Degree 7 $67,266 $94,131
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing. Bachelor's Degree 11 $68,678 $73,397
Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions. Bachelor's Degree 21 $62,752 $71,024
Accounting and Related Services. Bachelor's Degree 5 $49,357 $70,025
Marketing. Bachelor's Degree 10 $47,464 $68,336
Business Administration, Management and Operations. Bachelor's Degree 66 $45,089 $66,815
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness. Bachelor's Degree 14 $63,397
Biology, General. Bachelor's Degree 19 $19,944 $51,419
Health/Medical Preparatory Programs. Bachelor's Degree 64 $47,760
Animal Sciences. Bachelor's Degree 32 $34,595 $46,977

Sources: IPEDS Completions (C2023_a; bachelor's-level first majors, 2-digit CIP family — share is of the top 5 only) · College Scorecard program-level outcomes (PP-FOS). Full college-vs-major comparison: /college-outcomes →

Student body & economic mobility

Who attends here — and what the campus adds.

Opportunity Insights data. It measures two things at once: how many lower-income students a college enrols, and how many of them reach the top earnings quintile later. A high rate says the college does both — it does not establish that the campus caused the earnings, because the students it admits differ from the students it doesn't. Read it as a signal about access and destination, not as proof of value added.

Top-1% access
0.6%
from top-1% households
Mobility rateThe share of ALL students who arrived from the bottom 20% of family incomes AND reached the top 20% themselves by their early 30s — access and lift in one number, and a sign the campus itself adds earnings power.
1.0%
bottom 20% → top 20% by age 32
Upward rate
15.2%
of lower-income students who reach the top 20%
Pell recipientsStudents receiving federal Pell grants, which go to lower- and middle-income families — the standard shorthand for a college's economic mix.
15%
on federal need grants — context for these numbers

Full leaderboards: /college-mobility →

AI program signal

AI + computing education at The University of Findlay

CS degrees (annual)
8
CIP 11.0701 + 11.0101

Full multi-lens comparison: /ai-colleges →

Alternatives to The University of Findlay

Matched not just by selectivity, but by strategic goal — what a family actually decides on.

Better merit-aid options
These similar-selectivity schools publish merit scholarships your family can plan around — your kid’s stats could unlock real scholarship dollars.
The University of Alabama
AL · Public
21 stats-based + 2 competitive scholarships
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MS · Public
18 stats-based + 1 competitive scholarships
University of Alabama at Birmingham
AL · Public
17 stats-based + 2 competitive scholarships
Lower full price
Similar selectivity, but a meaningfully lower full sticker price — the comparison that matters most for families who won't qualify for much need-based aid.
Indiana University-Kokomo
IN · Public
$11,837/yr full price (in-state) · $42,743 less before aid for IN residents
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
GA · Public
$13,956/yr full price (in-state) · $40,624 less before aid for GA residents
Indiana University-Northwest
IN · Public
$13,989/yr full price (in-state) · $40,591 less before aid for IN residents
More students move up here
Per Opportunity Insights, a larger share of these campuses' lower-income students reach the top earnings quintile than at The University of Findlay. That reflects who they admit as well as what they do, so read it as a destination signal rather than proof of value added.
California State University-Los Angeles
CA · Public
9.9% mobility rate (vs 1.0% here)
MCPHS University
MA · Private nonprofit
9.3% mobility rate (vs 1.0% here)
Pace University
NY · Private nonprofit
8.4% mobility rate (vs 1.0% here)

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Feeder high schools

Which high schools send graduates to The University of Findlay?

4 high schools publish a numbered matriculation list — where their graduates actually enrolled, counted, in the school's own School Profile — and name The University of Findlay on it. Between them they printed 4 enrolled graduates. Ranked by graduates per class year enrolling at The University of Findlay, from each school's own published list: the number that school printed, divided by the class years its list covers. The published total and the school's own years label are shown beside every school, so a one-year list and a five-year list can sit on the same page. A list whose class years we cannot read is not divided by a guess — it is listed below with its total instead.

High school · years its list covers Enrolled per class year
Manlius Pebble Hill School · Class of 2025 1.0 · 1 over 1 class year
Western Reserve Academy · Class of 2026 1.0 · 1 over 1 class year
St Ignatius High School · Classes of 2023, 2024, 2025 0.3 · 1 over 3 class years
Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart (Houston) · 2021 - 2024 0.2 · 1 over 4 class years

All 4 feeder schools, ranked →

Counted from each school's own published document, linked on that school's page. A high school that is not here does not publish a numbered list we could read — that is all absence means, and it says nothing about its graduates. Where a school publishes both, the two lists are shown separately: an acceptances list is not a list of enrollments, and the two are never added together.

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At a glance

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The University of Findlay is a private nonprofit four-year college in OH. It admitted 86% of applicants (3,760 applied, 2023). Test policy: Test-optional.

Cost: about $27,221 a year on average with aid, $54,580 a year at full price.

Median earnings ten years after entry: $56,996 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $461,076 ahead with aid, $351,640 ahead at full price.

Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Environmental Control Technologies/Technicians ($94,131); Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing ($73,397); Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions ($71,024).

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 6% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 15% of those reached the top fifth as adults.

High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name The University of Findlay: 4, 4 enrolled students between them — ranked by graduates per class year, most often Manlius Pebble Hill School (1.0 per class year, 1 over 1 class year, Class of 2025); Western Reserve Academy (1.0 per class year, 1 over 1 class year, Class of 2026); St Ignatius High School (0.3 per class year, 1 over 3 class years, Classes of 2023, 2024, 2025). Each figure is the number that school printed divided by the class years its own list covers; the totals and years are shown. These are the schools that publish such a list, not every school that sends students; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/the-university-of-findlay.

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